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"Life takes us on an unexpected ride... with anxiety."
"Sometimes life takes us on an unexpected ride...accompanied by a lot of anxiety."
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Douglas Eby
The complex experience of 2E adults with ADHD with Linda Roggli
Listen now (10 mins) | "Owning an ADHD brain has its challenges — time blindness, trouble with initiation and completion, impatience, impulsivity. And…
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Douglas Eby
9:30
Can our neurodivergent brains come with mental illness? Damn straight.
As multiple psychologists and writers note, those of us who are neurocomplex and neurodivergent people can also be more vulnerable to emotional or…
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Douglas Eby
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Highly Sensitive, Neurodivergent and Misunderstood. How Can We Be Ourselves?
Listen now (12 mins) | Being a highly sensitive person, or neurodivergent in other ways, we may have grown up feeling misunderstood, and even like we…
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Douglas Eby
11:41
How high sensitivity and autism overlap, plus some key differences
Listen now | "Although there may be some similarities between the sensory processing challenges experienced by highly sensitive individuals [HSPs] and…
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Douglas Eby
11:17
Feeling flawed as a neurodivergent child or adult - What can change that?
Listen now | "It is hard to change that feeling flawed piece...it's so seeped into your bones because it's your inner child. It's stuff that you learned…
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Douglas Eby
6:10
Embracing neurodivergent people as positive and valuable in a workplace
Listen now | Embracing neurodivergent people as positive and valuable in a workplace. Is self-diagnosis helpful? How are organizations supporting…
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Douglas Eby
20:13
Online communities that support creative, highly sensitive, gifted, neurodivergent people
How can participating in a community of others that share your unique personality and cognitive differences help enhance your personal growth and…
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Douglas Eby
Highly sensitive and autistic women - Often a hidden world.
Listen now | Therapist Julie Bjelland says "the reason we call it hidden is because many of the things that we experience as autistic women are in fact…
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Douglas Eby
12:31
Gifted and Neurodivergent - How does our brainmind work differently?
Listen now | Understanding what's going on can lead to a better path in life. "First we have to know we're gifted... And that could sound like so…
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Douglas Eby
32:48
Thriving as a highly sensitive person, or autistic, or both - especially as a woman
Listen now | "Although there may be some similarities between the sensory processing challenges experienced by highly sensitive individuals and those…
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Douglas Eby
17:38
How to Grow Your Creative Business as a Sensitive and Neurodivergent Person
Ellie Trier, a contemporary artist and illustrator, discusses her experience as a neurodivergent person and how it influences her business.
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Douglas Eby
17:08
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